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Purple Pop Art… SHIRLEY!
Shirley Chisholm, the first Black U.S. Congresswoman, was creative and innovative in her 1972 run for United States President. Her campaign slogan “Unbought and Unbossed” inspired many. Shirley is my…
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"Be the Curator of your Own Museum" using Augmented Reality
Objectives: Students will create a "museum exhibit" using augmented reality (AR MAKR) to show their knowledge and understanding of a specific topic from World War II . Students will research, desig…
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What are we all teaching?
Chatting with some of the ADEs around the world, it got me thinking about what we call subjects where we live and what we teach. As such, I thought it would be interesting to discuss this very topic …
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Retrieval Practice and Daily Reviews
I’m a collector of research, good practice and learning. I apply what I learn to my own classroom to improve my teaching, and then support other teachers to improve theirs. I am constantly learning… …
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Challenge: Advocate for civic participation using lessons from the Women’s Suffrage Movement.
As we create content and lessons for Woman’s History Month (and beyond) using the Challenge Based Learning framework to Engage, Investigate and Act around the Big Idea of Suffrage helps students make…
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World Explorers Research and Poster Project
Exploring the Great Explorers: A Journey Through History and Creativity Dive into the past with our captivating World Explorers project, where Year 4 students embark on an educational adventure to re…
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Coloring the Suffrage Flag
What activities are you doing around Women’s History Month (March - US)? I’ve enjoyed the “coloring” posts in the forum like Cosmos Big Ideas with iPad Illustrations and Keynote Coloring Books by L…
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Mind Mapping Images & Stories of Black History with Freeform
Often you need to jump into a new app with a project, to fully understand its potential.That’s what I did with Freeform on iPad in order to organize and mind map some social studies resources for Bla…
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Bicycling with Black History
During Black History Month and beyond, students have the opportunity to delve into stories of remarkable resilience in the face of adversity. These stories are powerful and students can explore a var…
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Lunar New Year Lanterns in Keynote - 2024 Update!
I like to encourage learners to do some digital crafting and primary source sleuthing around Lunar New Year (or any holiday). Using a Library of Congress primary source from the Carol Highsmith Coll…
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One Best Thing: What small shift can you make?
When students connect to the History, in Space Science. What small shift can you make? Think of an assignment where your students produce a product of some sort - for example they have a google slide…
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Vocabulary Hunt with Numbers
Introduce or review vocabulary using Numbers! Add media placeholders for each vocabulary word and have students "hunt" for items that represent the vocabulary word in its context. This can be used at…
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The Mac at Forty!
If you are as seasoned as I am, you were using the Mac from its very beginning. Or maybe you adopted this classroom magic some years later. The Mac turns forty January 24, 2024. Here are a few of ou…
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Apple’s Web site features Martin Luther King Jr. ebook
Free download of The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr. featured on Apple’s Website today - January 15, 2024.
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One Best Thing - New Curriculum = New Opportunities for Creativity and Collaboration
Students learn best when meaningful integration is implemented across the curriculum. I have found that teachers in many primary classrooms are unaware of how technology can aid in subject integratio…
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Using Freeform to ACTIVATE our destiny.
Ninth grade students are beginning a unit on American Westward Expansion. Prior to beginning the unit, students analyze an image to "activate" their brains for the upcoming content to be learned. S…
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Aotearoa New Zealand Histories-Shine a Spotlight on Peace Pins
Our Year 7 and 8 ākonga have been learning about Aotearoa New Zealand Histories through picture books. The book we focused on recently was Remember that November which incorporates two different hist…
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Art Restoration
When studying history we see artifacts in their current state, however I want students to visualize what the original looked like. We are working on a unit on Egypt, and we were learning about Nefert…
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Diving Deep with APUSH: A Creative Exploration Through Apple Freeform
Hey Folks, I'm pumped to share an innovative project idea that's going to jazz up our AP US History (APUSH) adventure. It's all about harnessing the cool features of Apple Freeform to dig deeper into…
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Wall of Fame or Wall of Shame Persuasive Project (Early European Explorers)
Students should research the history and events involving early European exploration of the New World. Once the research or teaching unit is complete, the students can choose one of the explorers the…
